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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Wayners who wrote (692419)1/12/2013 12:32:05 PM
From: SilentZ  Read Replies (1) of 1577168
 
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I believe the drugs really are the cause. For someone to commit such a horrific mind bending act, one needs to be on mind bending drugs . The medical term is homicidal ideation. It is listed as a possible side effect of anti-depressant medications.

1. You have to assume that correlation implies causation. But logically, it's every bit as likely that the perpetrators were prescribed drugs because there was something wrong with them in the first place.

2. Crime rates have been going down while the prescription rate has soared. I'm not saying that increasing prescriptions decreases crime (in fact, I'd highly doubt it), but the trends that I look at don't show otherwise.

3. The mind does a darned good job at bending itself.

4. I count about 60 deaths in your list. I don't know what period that's over, but that's a miniscule portion of all violent death in this country. It's not statistically significant by any means.

5. People have had crazy, violent impulses since long, long before Prozac. Hint: Lizzie Borden didn't take an axe and give her father thirty whacks in the last decade...

I'm not saying that antidepressants can't cause homicidal thoughts or actions, just that they don't seem to be much of a factor in overall violent crime, from what I can see.

-Z
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